Articles by Freescale Semiconductor, Tempe, Ariz.

Freescale Semiconductor introduced two LDMOS RF power transistors that allow wireless base station amplifiers to cover all channels in an entire allocated frequency band. The high-efficiency transistors help reduce capital and operating expenditures, and their wide instantaneous bandwidth allows operators to increase network flexibility. Most of today’s amplifier systems...

Freescale Semiconductor has developed a RF LDMOS power transistor designed for operation from 1.8 to 600 MHz and optimized for use under the potentially-destructive impedance mismatch conditions encountered in applications such as CO 2 lasers, plasma generators and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners. The new MRFE6VP61K25H FET is the...

Freescale Semiconductor unveiled three advanced industrial RF power transistors at an ideal price/performance ratio for original equipment manufacturers (OEM). The enhanced rugged capability combined with leading-edge RF performance enables OEMs to realize significant cost savings at the system level for industrial and commercial aerospace designs. Freescale’s MRFE6VP5600H/S and MRFE6VP61K25H/S...

Freescale Semiconductor introduces three new RF LDMOS power transistors that deliver ultra high output levels required for Doherty-type, multi-carrier power amplifiers (MCPA) used in wireless base station transceivers. Freescale’s MRF8S18260H/S, MRF8P18265H/S and MRF8S19260H/S products are the newest members of Freescale’s High Voltage Eighth Generation (HV8) family of RF power...

Freescale Semiconductor has entered the gallium arsenide (GaAs) Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) marketplace with the introduction of four new devices designed and optimized specifically for high performance in macro base stations, repeaters and femtocells employed in wireless networks. The devices address low-noise amplifiers and transmit power amplifiers –...

DENSO Corp. , Freescale Semiconductor and TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. have joined together to form an industry consortium to drive further development and deployment of the Distributed Systems Interface (DSI) standard. DSI is the automotive industry’s most widely adopted bus standard used to connect remotely placed sensors to the...

Freescale Semiconductor introduces two final-stage LDMOS RF power transistors giving designers a choice between discrete and integrated circuit (IC) solutions. This choice, along with two accompanying reference designs, offers designers greater flexibility and speeds time to market. The new transistors are optimized for use in power amplifiers based on...

Freescale Semiconductor has introduced five laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) field effect transistors (FET) for commercial aerospace applications. The expanded RF portfolio includes L-band (965 to 1215 MHz) devices and the first LDMOS FETs for aerospace applications at S-band (3.1 to 3.5 GHz). Freescale will showcase these devices...

Freescale Semiconductor announced that it has partnered with Flextronics to create a high performance reference design for the Enterprise WLAN access point market. Based on Freescale’s PowerQUICC® II Pro MPC8377E processor, the IEEE® 802.11N access point reference design offers a comprehensive, production-ready solution that scales from 400 to 800...

Freescale Semiconductor , a supplier of 802.15.4 chipsets, announced it has shipped more than seven million IEEE® 802.15.4 and ZigBee® units in 2008 for the wireless sensor networks used in smart energy, industrial control and home entertainment applications. A recent study by In-Stat, “802.15.4 – A New Sense of...